Adele Laurie Blue Adkins 

MBE   born 5 May 1988), professionally known by the

mononym Adele, is an English singer and songwriter. After graduating in arts from
the BRIT School in 2006, Adele signed a record deal with XL Recordings. Her debut
album, 19, was released in 2008 and spawned the UK top-five singles "Chasing
Pavements" and "Make You Feel My Love". The album was certified 8× platinum in
the UK and triple platinum in the US. Adele was honoured with the Brit Award for
Rising Star as well as the Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Adele released her second studio album, 21, in 2011. It became the world's best-
selling album of the 21st century, with sales of over 31 million copies. It was
certified 18× platinum in the UK (the highest by a solo artist of all time)
and Diamond in the US. According to Billboard, 21 is the top-performing album in the
US chart history, topping the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks (the longest for a female
artist ever). She was the first female artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 to
have three simultaneous top-ten singles as a lead artist, with "Rolling in the Deep",
"Someone Like You", and "Set Fire to the Rain", all of which also topped the chart.
The album received a record-tying six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year,
and the Brit Award for British Album of the Year. The success of 21 earned Adele
numerous mentions in the Guinness Book of Records.
In 2012, Adele released "Skyfall", a soundtrack single for the James Bond film of the
same name, which won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best
Original Song. Her third studio album, 25, was released in 2015 and became the
year's best-selling album, also breaking first-week sales records in the UK and US,
where it is the only album to sell over three million copies in a week. 25 was her
second album to be certified Diamond in the US and earned her five Grammy
Awards, including Album of the Year, and four Brit Awards, including British Album of
the Year. The lead single, "Hello", became the first song in the US to sell over one
million digital copies within a week of its release. Her fourth studio album 30, which
contains the chart-topping single "Easy on Me", was released in 2021 and became
the year's best-selling album worldwide including US and UK. 30 won the 2022 Brit
Award for British Album of the Year.
Adele is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with sales of over 170 million
records as of 2022 and was named best-selling female artist of the 21st century in
the UK[4] Her accolades include fifteen Grammy Awards, twelve Brit Awards,
an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2011,
2012, and 2016, Billboard named her Artist of the Year. At the 2012 and 2016 Ivor
Novello Awards, Adele was named Songwriter of the Year by The Ivors
Academy. Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the
world in 2012, 2016, and 2022. She was appointed a MBE at the 2013 Queen's
Birthday Honours for services to music. Rolling Stone magazine has listed her album
21 in their listing of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2020) and they have also
placed Adele at 22nd in their updated list of 200 Greatest Singers of all time (2023).
[5]
 Insider magazine called her the greatest artist of 2010s decade.[6]

Adele  was born on 5 May 1988 in the Tottenham district of London, to an English

mother, Penny Adkins, and a Welsh father, Marc Evans.[8] Evans left when Adele was
2, and she was brought up by her mother.[9][10] She began singing at age 4 and
asserts that she became obsessed with voices.[11][12] In 1997, 9-year-old Adele and
her mother, who by then had found work as a furniture maker and an adult-learning
activities organiser, relocated to Brighton on the south coast of England.[13]
In 1999, she and her mother moved back to London; first to Brixton, then to the
neighbouring district of West Norwood in south London, which is the subject of her
first song "Hometown Glory".[14] She spent much of her youth in Brockwell Park where
she would play the guitar and sing to friends, which she recalled in her 2015 song
"Million Years Ago". She stated, "It has quite monumental moments of my life that
I've spent there, and I drove past it [in 2015] and I just literally burst into tears. I really
missed it."[15] Adele graduated from the BRIT School for Performing Arts &
Technology in Croydon in May 2006,[16] where she was a classmate of Leona
Lewis and Jessie J.[7][17] Adele credits the school with nurturing her talent[18] even
though, at the time, she was more interested in going into artists and
repertoire (A&R) and hoped to launch other people's careers.[7]
Four months after graduation, Adele published two songs on the fourth issue of the
online arts publication PlatformsMagazine.com.[19] She had recorded a three-song
demo for a class project and given it to a friend.[7] The friend posted the demo on
Myspace, where it became very successful and led to a phone call from Richard
Russell, boss of the music label XL Recordings. She doubted if the offer was real
because the only record company she knew was Virgin Records, and she took a
friend with her to the meeting.[17][20] Around this time, Adele collaborated with Ricsta
on "Be Divine", a song described as an "electronic club-ready" track.[21]
Nick Huggett, at XL, recommended Adele to manager Jonathan Dickins at
September Management, and in June 2006, Dickins became her official
representative.[22] September was managing Jamie T at the time and this proved a
major draw for Adele, a big fan of the British singer-songwriter. Huggett then signed
Adele to XL in September 2006.[22] Adele provided vocals for Jack Peñate's song,
"My Yvonne," for his debut album, and it was during this session she first met
producer Jim Abbiss, who would go on to produce both the majority of her debut
album, 19, and tracks on 21.[23] In June 2007, Adele made her television debut,
performing "Daydreamer" on the BBC's Later... with Jools Holland.[24] Adele's
breakthrough song, "Hometown Glory", written when she was 16, was released in
October 2007.[22]
By 2008, Adele had become the headliner and performed an acoustic set, in which
she was supported by Damien Rice.[25] She became the first recipient of the Brit
Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act
of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008.[26][27] She released her
second single, "Chasing Pavements", on 14 January 2008, two weeks ahead of her
debut album. The song reached number two on the UK Chart, and stayed there for
four weeks.[28] The album 19, named for her age at the time she wrote and composed
many of its songs, entered the British charts at number one. The Times Encyclopedia
of Modern Music named 19 an "essential" blue-eyed soul recording.[29] Adele was
nominated for a 2008 Mercury Prize award for 19.[30] She also won an Urban Music
Award for "Best Jazz Act,"[31] and a Music of Black Origin (MOBO) nomination in the
category of Best UK Female.[32] In March 2008, Adele signed a deal with Columbia
Records and XL Recordings for her foray into the United States.[33] She embarked on
a short North American tour in the same month,[33] and 19 was released in the US in
June.[18] Billboard magazine stated of it: "Adele truly has potential to become among
the most respected and inspiring international artists of her generation."[34] The An
Evening with Adele world tour began in May 2008 and ended in June 2009.[35]
She later cancelled the 2008 US tour dates to be with a former boyfriend.[36] She said
in Nylon magazine in June 2009, "I'm like, 'I can't believe I did that.' It seems so
ungrateful.... I was drinking far too much and that was kind of the basis of my
relationship with this boy. I couldn't bear to be without him, so I was like, 'Well, I'll just
cancel my stuff then.'"[36] She referred to this period as her "early life crisis".[36] She is
also known for her dislike of flying and bouts of homesickness when away from her
native London.[37] By the middle of October 2008, Adele's attempt to break in America
appeared to have failed.[38] But then she was booked as the musical guest on 18
October 2008 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live. The episode, which included an
expected appearance by then US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, earned the
program its best ratings in 14 years with 17 million viewers. Adele performed
"Chasing Pavements" and "Cold Shoulder,"[39] and the following day, 19 topped the
iTunes charts and ranked at number five at Amazon.com while "Chasing Pavements"
rose into the top 25.[40] The album reached number 11 on the Billboard 200 as a
result, a jump of 35 places over the previous week.[41] In November 2008, Adele
moved to Notting Hill, London after leaving her mother's house, a move that
prompted her to give up drinking.[42] The album was certified gold in early 2009, by
the RIAA.[43] By July 2009, the album had sold 2.2 million copies worldwide.[44]
At the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in February 2009, Adele won the award for Best
New Artist, in addition to the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for
"Chasing Pavements", which was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of
the Year.[45] Adele performed "Chasing Pavements" at the ceremony in a duet
with Jennifer Nettles. In 2010, Adele received a Grammy nomination for Best Female
Pop Vocal Performance for "Hometown Glory."[46] In April her song "My Same"
entered the German Singles Chart after it had been performed by Lena Meyer-
Landrut in the talent show contest Unser Star für Oslo, or Our Star for Oslo, in which
the German entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 was determined.[47][48] In late
September, after being featured on The X Factor, Adele's version of Bob Dylan's
"Make You Feel My Love" re-entered the UK singles chart at number 4.[49] During the
2010 CMT Artists of the Year special, Adele performed a widely publicised duet
of Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" with Darius Rucker.[50] This performance was
later nominated for a CMT Music Award.[51]

Adele released her second studio album, 21, on 24 January 2011 in the UK and 22
February in the US.[52][53] She said the album was inspired by the breakup with her
former partner.[10] The album's sound is described as classic and
contemporary country and roots music. The change in sound from her debut album
was the result of her bus driver playing contemporary music from Nashville when she
was touring the American South, and the title reflected the growth she had
experienced in the prior two years.[53] Adele told Spin Magazine: "It was really exciting
for me because I never grew up around [that music]."[54] 21 topped the charts in 30
countries, including the UK and the US.[55][56][57]
In a 2011 Rolling Stone cover story, Adele said she dealt with onstage anxiety by
creating the alter ego "Sasha Carter", derived from Beyoncé's "Sasha Fierce"
and June Carter. During one episode after she met Beyoncé, Adele said, she asked
"What would Sasha Fierce do?" and that helped.[58][59]
An emotional performance of "Someone Like You" at the 31st Brit Awards on 15
February propelled the song to number one in the UK.[60] Her first album, 19, re-
entered the UK album chart alongside 21, while first and second singles "Rolling in
the Deep" and "Someone Like You" were in the top 5 of the UK singles chart, making
Adele the first living artist to achieve the feat of two top-five hits in both the Official
Singles Chart and the Official Albums Chart simultaneously since the Beatles in
1964.[61] Both songs topped the charts in multiple markets and broke numerous sales
performance records. Following her performance of "Someone Like You" at the 2011
MTV Video Music Awards, it became Adele's second number-one single on
the Billboard Hot 100.[62] By December 2011, 21 sold over 3.4 million copies in the
UK, and became the biggest-selling album of the 21st century, overtaking Amy
Winehouse's Back to Black,[63][64] with Adele becoming the first artist ever to sell three
million albums in the UK in one calendar year.[65][66] "Set Fire to the Rain" became
Adele's third number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, as Adele became the first
artist ever to have an album, 21, hold the number-one position on the Billboard 200
concurrently with three number-one singles.[67] Moreover, 21 had the most weeks on
the Billboard 200 chart of any album by a female artist.[68]
To promote the album, Adele embarked upon the "Adele Live" tour, which sold out its
North American leg.[69] In October 2011, Adele was forced to cancel two tours
because of a vocal-cord haemorrhage. She released a statement saying she needed
an extended period of rest to avoid permanent damage to her voice.[70] In the first
week of November 2011 Steven M. Zeitels, director of the Center for Laryngeal
Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,
performed laser microsurgery on Adele's vocal cords to remove a benign polyp.[71][72]
[73]
 A recording of her tour, Live at the Royal Albert Hall, was released in November
2011, debuting at number one in the US with 96,000 copies sold, the highest one-
week tally for a music DVD in four years, becoming the best-selling music DVD of
2011.[74] Adele is the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history to have the year's
number-one album (21), number-one single ("Rolling in the Deep"), and number-one
music video (Live at the Royal Albert Hall).[75] At the 2011 American Music Awards on
20 November, Adele won three awards; Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist, Favorite
Adult Contemporary Artist, and Favorite Pop/Rock Album for 21.[76] On 9
December, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year, Billboard 200 Album of the Year
(21), and the Billboard Hot 100 Song of the Year ("Rolling in the Deep"), becoming
the first woman ever to top all three categories.[77][78]

Following the throat microsurgery, she made her live comeback at the 2012 Grammy
Awards in February.[79] She won in all six categories for which she was nominated,
including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year, making her
the second female artist in Grammy history, after Beyoncé, to win that many awards
in a single night.[80] Following that success, 21 achieved the biggest weekly sales
increase following a Grammy win since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in
1991.[81][82] Adele received the Brit Award for British Female Solo Artist, and British
Album of the Year presented to her by George Michael.[83][84] Following the Brit
Awards, 21 reached number one for the 21st non-consecutive week in the UK.[85] The
album has sold over 4.5 million copies in the UK where it is the fourth-best-selling
album.[86] In October, the album's sales surpassed 4.5 million in the UK, and in
November it surpassed 10 million sales in the US.[87][88][89] The best-selling album
worldwide of 2011 and 2012, as of 2016, the album has sold over 31 million copies.
[90][91][92]
 By the end of 2014, she had sold an estimated 40 million albums and
50 million singles worldwide.[93] Adele is the only artist or band in the last decade in
the US to earn an RIAA diamond certification for a one disc album in less than two
years.[88]
In October 2012, Adele confirmed that she had been writing, composing and
recording the theme song for Skyfall, the twenty-third James Bond film.[94][95] The song
"Skyfall," written and composed in collaboration with producer Paul Epworth, was
recorded at Abbey Road Studios, and features orchestrations by J. A. C. Redford.
[96]
 Adele stated recording "Skyfall" was "one of the proudest moments of my life." On
14 October, "Skyfall" rose to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart with sales of 92,000
copies bringing its overall sales to 176,000, and "Skyfall" entered the Billboard Hot
100 at number 8, selling 261,000 copies in the US in its first three days.[97] This tied
"Skyfall" with Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill" as the highest-charting James Bond
theme song on the UK Singles Chart;[98] a record surpassed in 2015 by Sam Smith's
"Writing's on the Wall".[99]
"Skyfall" has sold more than five million copies worldwide[100] and earned Adele
the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song[101] and the Academy Award for Best
Original Song.[102] In December 2012, Adele was named Billboard Artist of the Year,
and 21 was named Album of the Year, making her the first artist to receive both
accolades two years in a row.[103][104] Adele was also named top female artist.
[104]
 The Associated Press named Adele Entertainer of the Year for 2012.
[105]
 The 2013 Grammy Awards saw Adele's live version of "Set Fire to the Rain" win
the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance, bringing her total wins to nine.
[106]

On 3 April 2012, Adele confirmed that her third album would likely be at least two
years away, stating, "I have to take time and live a little bit. There were a good two
years between my first and second albums, so it'll be the same this time." She stated
that she would continue writing and composing her own material.[107] At the 2013
Grammy Awards, she confirmed that she was in the very early stages of her third
album.[108][109] She also stated that she will most likely work with Paul Epworth again.
[108]

In September 2013, Wiz Khalifa confirmed that he and Adele had collaborated on a

song for his fifth studio album, Blacc Hollywood, though the collaboration did not
make the final track listing.[110] In January 2014, Adele received her tenth Grammy
Award with "Skyfall" winning Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 56th Annual
Grammy Awards.[111]

As part of her world tour, in February and March 2017, Adele performed in Australia
for the first time, playing outdoor stadiums around the country.[157] Her first two shows
in New Zealand sold out in a record-breaking 23 minutes, and a third show was
announced, with all tickets sold in under 30 minutes.[158] Adele sold over 600,000
tickets for her record-breaking eight date Australian tour, setting stadium records
throughout the country; her Sydney show at ANZ Stadium on 10 March was seen by
95,000 people, the biggest single concert in Australian history, a record she broke
the following night with more than 100,000 fans.[159] Adele completed her world tour
with two concerts, dubbed "The Finale", at Wembley Stadium, London on 28 and 29
June.[160] She announced the shows at "the home of football" by singing the England
football team's "Three Lions" anthem and also the theme song to the BBC's weekly
Premier League football show Match of the Day.[160] Adele had added another two
concerts at Wembley after the first two dates sold out,[161] however she cancelled the
last two dates of the tour after damaging her vocal cords.[162] As a show of support,
fans instead gathered outside Wembley Stadium to perform renditions of her songs,
in an event titled "Sing for Adele".[163]
At the end of 2016, Billboard named Adele Artist of the Year for the third time,[164] and
also received the Top Billboard 200 album.[165] 25 was the best-selling album for a
second consecutive year in the US.[166] With 235 million views, Adele's Carpool
Karaoke through the streets of London with James Corden, a sketch which featured
on Corden's talk show The Late Late Show with James Corden in January 2016, was
the biggest YouTube viral video of 2016.[167] At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in
February 2017, Adele won all five of her nominations, bringing her number of awards
to fifteen. She won Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for 25, and Record
of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance for "Hello".[168] She
also performed a tribute to the late George Michael singing the rendition of his song
"Fastlove"; due to technical difficulties which occurred during the performance, Adele
decided to stop and restart, explaining "I can't mess this up for him".[169] As
announced on 31 July 2017, Adele switched performance rights management in the
US from BMI to SESAC.[170]
dele's debut album, 19, is of the soul genre, with lyrics addressing heartbreak and
relationship.[18] Her success occurred simultaneously with several other British female
soul singers, with the British press dubbing her a new Amy Winehouse.[7] This was
described as a third British Musical Invasion of the US.[17] However, Adele called the
comparisons between her and other female soul singers lazy, noting "we're a gender,
not a genre".[18][234][235] AllMusic wrote that "Adele is simply too magical to compare her
to anyone."[226]
Her second album, 21, shares the folk and soul influences of her debut album, but
was further inspired by American country and Southern blues music to which she had
been exposed during her 2008–09 tour An Evening with Adele in North America.[236]
[237]
 Conceived in the aftermath of Adele's breakup with a partner, the album typifies
the near dormant tradition of the confessional singer-songwriter in its exploration of
heartbreak, self-examination, and forgiveness. Having referred to 21 as a "break-up
record", Adele labelled her third studio album, 25, a "make-up record", adding it is
about "Making up for lost time. Making up for everything I ever did and never
did."[120] Her yearning for her old self, her nostalgia, and melancholy about the
passage of time, is a feature of 25, with Adele stating, "I've had a lot of regrets since I
turned 25. And sadness hits me in different ways than it used to. There's a lot of
things I don't think I'll ever get 'round to doing."[238]

In 2011, Adele began a relationship with charity entrepreneur Simon Konecki.

[253]
 Their son was born on 19 October 2012.[254] On the topic of becoming a parent,
Adele said she "felt like I was truly living. I had a purpose, where before I didn't".
[255]
 Adele and Konecki brought a privacy case against a UK-based photo agency that
published intrusive paparazzi images of their son taken during family outings in 2013.
[256]
 Lawyers working on their behalf accepted damages from the company in July
2014.[257] Adele has also opened up about suffering from postnatal
depression, anxiety, and panic attacks.[258][259]
In early 2017, tabloids started speculating that Adele and Konecki had secretly
married when they were spotted wearing matching rings on their ring fingers.
[260]
 During her acceptance speech at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards for Album of
the Year, Adele seemed to have confirmed these reports by referring to Konecki as
"my husband" when thanking him.[261] She repeated this in March 2017, telling the
audience at a concert in Brisbane, Australia, "I'm married now".[262] However, in a
2021 interview with British Vogue, she revealed that they actually married in 2018,
and separated the same year.[263] During this time, Adele became a stay-at-home
mother.[264] In April 2019, Adele's representatives confirmed the separation
via Associated Press, and affirmed that she and Konecki would continue to raise their
son together.[265][266] On 13 September 2019, it was reported that Adele had filed for
divorce from Konecki in the US.[267] Their divorce was finalised on 4 March 2021.
[268]
 In 2021, Adele entered a relationship with American sports agent Rich Paul.[263][269]
Politically, she is a supporter of the Labour Party, saying in 2011 that she was a
"Labour girl through and through", and in the same interview was critical of
the Conservative Party.[270] Despite this declared political alignment, Adele received
backlash for her comments on paying taxes during a 2011 interview
with Q magazine. She said, "I use the NHS, I can't use public transport any more,
doing what I do, I went to state school, I'm mortified to have to pay 50 percent! Trains
are always late, most state schools are shit and I've gotta give you like four million
quid, are you having a laugh? When I got my tax bill in from 19 I was ready to go and
buy a gun and randomly open fire."[271][272]
Born in the North London district of Tottenham, Adele supports local football
club Tottenham Hotspur.[273]
In 2015, Adele said, "I'm a feminist, I believe that everyone should be treated the
same, including race and sexuality".[231] Supportive of the LGBT community, on 12
June 2016, an emotional Adele dedicated her show in Antwerp, Belgium, to the
victims of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, United States,
earlier that day, adding, "The LGBTQ community, they're like my soul mates since I
was really young, so I'm very moved by it."[274][275]
In April 2018, it was widely reported that Adele had become an ordained minister in
order to officiate at close friend comedian Alan Carr's wedding to Paul Drayton,
something which Adele herself subsequently confirmed. The wedding, held in
January 2018, took place in the garden of her house in Los Angeles, California.
[276]
 Adele's close friends include Nicole Richie,[277] Jennifer Lawrence, Cameron
Diaz, Emma Stone,[278] Laura Dockrill,[279] Lauren and Aaron Paul,[280] James Corden,
[281]
 and Elton John, among others.[282] Drake called Adele "One of [his] best friends in
the world".[283]
In 2012, Adele topped the List of Richest Young Musicians under 30 in the UK,
included on the Sunday Times Rich List.[284] In July 2012, she was listed at number
six in Forbes list of the world's highest-paid celebrities under the age of 30, having
earned £23 million between May 2011 and May 2012.[285] For six consecutive years,
from 2013 to 2018, Adele topped the List of Richest Young Musicians under 30 in the
UK and Ireland as part of the Sunday Times' annual Rich List.[286] In 2015, Adele said
she declined all sorts of lucrative endorsement offers out of personal choice.[287] In
2015, she reported paying £4 million tax in the UK.[288] In July 2016, Adele was
ranked number nine on the Forbes list of the 100 highest-paid celebrities in the world.
[289]
 In November 2016 and November 2017, she was in second place on
the Forbes list of the world's highest-paid women in music, earning US$80.5 million
and $69 million, respectively.[290] The Sunday Times Rich List valued her wealth at
£125 million in 2017, and she was ranked the 19th UK's richest musician overall
whilst being the only woman in the top 20.[291] Adele owns and operates two
companies, Melted Stone Ltd and Melted Stone Publishing.[292] In 2017, she earned
$11.2 million in royalties from record sales, after taxes, according to official
documents from her companies, without any new album release at the time, and
whilst spending her time off.[293] On the 2019 Sunday Times Rich List, Adele was
valued at £150 million (US$180.5 million) as the 22nd richest musician in the UK,
despite not having toured since 2017.[294]
In 2012, Adele and then-partner Konecki purchased a $3.4 million Art Deco villa
in Portslade, on the outskirts of Brighton and Hove, which she sold for $3.7 million in
2016. That same year, she bought two houses built side-by-side in Kensington for
$7.7 million and $7.3 million, respectively, with the intention of combining them.
Adele also bought a home for her mother in West London for around $817,000.[295] In
2013, she temporarily rented Paul McCartney's 12,000 square foot (1,100 m2) former
mansion for an undisclosed price. In 2015, Adele purchased a
$5.2 million Mediterranean-style vacation mansion in Malibu, California, and sold it in
2017 for less than its original purchase price, $4.8 million.[295] She envisioned buying
several properties on the same street in a Beverly Hills gated community, beginning
with the first home purchased for $9.5 million from Don Mischer in 2016.[296][297] During
her Madison Square Garden tour in September 2016, Adele rented NBA
player Deron Williams' Tribeca apartment for three weeks at a monthly rent of
$60,000.[298][295] In 2017, she and Konecki purchased a $5.3 million Tudor mansion
called Ridge Hill Manor, located in the English countryside on the outskirts of East
Grinstead.[295] In 2019 and 2021, Adele bought two more Beverly Hills mansions for
$10.65 million and $10 million, respectively; the latter was purchased from Richie and
her husband, Joel Madden.[299][300] In February 2022, it was reported she
bought Sylvester Stallone's 21,000 square foot (2,000 m2) former mansion in Beverly
Park, Los Angeles, for $58 million.[301][302]

In 2021, Adele was named the UK's best-selling female album artist of the 21st
century, based on Official Charts Company data.[385] In May 2022, Time magazine
named her for the third time among the 100 most influential people in the world in the
"icons" category.[386] As Adele has won Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar Awards, it makes
her a Tony Award away from achieving EGOT status as of 2022.[387]